Arkady Kiner holds a bachelor’s in medical science and a master’s in Oriental medicine from Mercy College. An experienced acupuncturist, Arkady Kiner assists patients with a wide range of health conditions, including physical and emotional issues.
In Chinese medicine, which recognizes that the emotions profoundly affect the body, the five elements of water, wood, fire, earth, and metal correspond to feelings of fear, anger, happiness, worry, and grief, respectively. Acupuncture seeks to address emotional issues by correcting imbalances in the flow of energy, or qi, throughout the body. It does so by stimulating specific points along channels called meridians.
Stimulating these points is believed to affect the internal organs and help them to regain normal function when proper energy flow is restored. For example, depression is thought to relate to poor qi flow involving the liver, heart, and spleen and is treated by stimulating points on the body that correspond to these organs.
Research shows that acupuncture also benefits other disorders related to depression, such as anxiety, and is as effective as cognitive-behavioral therapy. Further, a study published in the Journal of Endocrinology found that stress hormones, often involved in disorders such as anxiety and depression, were lower in rats treated with electric acupuncture.
